It’s time for a little reality here, everyone has to pay taxes.” Neil Cavuto on Your World today gave a viewer warning before laying into the 49% of Americans who pay no income tax. “Just because you’re entitled to our government, doesn’t mean you’re entitled to bash the folks who pay for that government.” He begins with this chart:

“It would be like being treated out to dinner, ordering the most expensive thing on the menu, then a pricey bottle of wine..Then bitching to the host about how much of a tip he left.” This is good. Watch the video.

That fondness for limited government is significant in this election year because it shows voters prefer the Republican approach in the core partisan dispute over resolving the nation’s fiscal problems.

The AP-GfK poll found that 65 percent favor requiring that people earning $1 million or more annually pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. Just 26 percent oppose.

Yet by 56 percent to 31 percent, people picked cutting government services over tax increases as the best way to reduce federal deficits.